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A19434	Anti-Coton, or, A Refutation of Cottons letter declaratorie lately directed to the Queene Regent, for the apologizing of the Iesuites doctrine, touching the killing of kings : a booke, in which it is proued that the Iesuites are guiltie, and were the authors of the late execrable parricide, committed vpon the person of the French King, Henry the Fourth, of happie memorie : to which is added, a Supplication of the Vniuersitie of Paris, for the preuenting of the Iesuites opening their schooles among them, in which their king-killing doctrine is also notably discouered, and confuted / both translated out of the French, by G.H. ; together with the translators animaduersions vpon Cottons letter.	Plaix, César de, d. 1641.; Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Du Coignet, Pierre.; Du Bois-Olivier, Jean, d. 1626.; Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1611 (1611)	STC 5861.2; ESTC S1683	49,353	94

intendment but that they ought not to reueale it It was found also that they had communication hereon by letters with Bauldwin the English Iesuite who then liued at Bruxels this Iesuite was taken since as hee passed through the Pals●raues Country and we doubt not but that if he were but a little stretcht by the fingers a man might learne strange misteries of him yea that he had some intelligence to with Francis Rauillac who had been in Flanders somewhat before his cursed enterprise And if you passe into Polonie you shall finde that the Iesuites doe absolutely possesse the King and hauing as it were the Tutorship of him haue carried him vnto such violent courses that the Country by their meanes is risen vp against him and he in great hazard of his kingdome Their factio●s humour is the cause that Sueden is lost from the Crowne of Poland and from the Catholique Church For they haue moued the King of Poland to make warre vpon Duke Charles who now stiles himselfe King so by force to compell him to receiue the Iesuites Neither is Transyluania free Wee haue seene the Letters of the Baron of Zerotin dated the 2. of May last wherein hee declareth how a Lord of the Country hauing a Iesuite with him in his house was by the same Iesuite drawne to conspire the death of the Prince of Tran●yluania who being aduertised of the day appointed for the enterprise went forth of the Towne that day giuing out that he went to hunt and laid an ambush without the Towne wherein hee surprised the enterprisers who followed after him to execute their intendment vpon him He put them all to death and the said Iesuite was executed with the generall slaughter of his complices The house of Austria alone hath this priuiledge as to be free from the conspiracies of this Societie Of this family the Princes liues are sacred and inuiolable vnto the Iesuits for the founder of their Order and the General of their Societie being a Spaniard to whom they haue vowed a blinde obedience vnder oath it is not to be feared in this respect that euer they should be moued to enterprise ought against the Kings of Spaine or against such as are of his house And therefore it is not without cause that the Common-wealth of Venice whose wisedome of gouernment is to be admired hath driuen them out of Venice and out of all their dominions They well perceiue that these men are creatures of bloud and fire-brands of warre whom they can better endure without then within their Country For their last troubles had their beginning from the Iesuites for whereas the Senate had discouered that the Iesuites by cunning fetches had gotten great store of Legacies by Will and made themselues Lords of much land to the preiudice of the Common-wealth It was concluded by aduise in Councell to prohibite all Clergie men thence forward to receiue any goods immoueable by testament without leaue of the common-wealth whereunto when other of the Church submitted the Iesuites who opposed it and wrought against it at Rome were for euer banished the State And for these considerations it is that the Citie of Orleans would neuer receiue them albeit they haue much desired it and laboured it They sent thither one of their companie to preach their Lent Sermons but the Inhabitants were not very well satisfied for instead of studying he busied his braines in searching out and entertaining such as had yet in their hearts any remainder of the olde leauen of the League by whose entercourse this Iesuite set the report going that the Kings pleasure was they should be established there Heretofore their talke was of driuing out the Monkes of S. Sampson that they might get their Church and of displacing Mounsieur the Marshall of Chastres Gouernour of that Citie to get his house making reckoning to ioyne it together with the houses in the way vnto the fore-said Church And besides all these preparatiues hauing giuen the King to vnderstand that the Citizens of Orleans did exceedingly desire their company they did so importune his Maiestie that hee granted them to haue an house there yet with this charge that the Citizens should be drawne to consent vnto it Now when they were solemnly assembled together about this matter one amongst them Touruille by name a famous Aduocate of the Citie a man of learning and iudgement declared vnto them the inconueniences that might befall the Citie if they did admit them and by strong reasons made it good that in France for a man to loue his King and the Iesuites were things that could not stand together The chiefe Officers of Iustice following this first tune and all the Citizens concurring iointly in the same opinion it was concluded that they should not be receiued This Citie at other times hath drunk of the cup of Rebellion with many others but sithens their reducing vnder obedience vnto the King they haue at all times declared themselues most faithfull euen by their carriage in this last common affliction as they haue declared more griefe then any other so do they make the continuance of their obedience appeare by al maner of good works more then any other CHAP. III. That the Iesuites are guilty of the murther of our deceased King Henry the fourth WHosoeuer shall consider the crime of this wicked wretch Rauillac in euery part and circumstance of it shal easily perceiue that the Iesuites had their fingers in the Pie and that the mischiefe came none otherwise then by their instruction It is some fiue yeares since that at S. Victors there was a Maide possessed with a Diuell whose instrument she was for the tel●ing of diuers things that seemed admirable Father Cotton either moued with curiositie or grounding himselfe vpon the familiaritie he had with his Spirits tooke a iourney thither to question with this Spirit on diuers points which he had a desire to know And to helpe his memory hee wrote in a ticket the points whereon hee was to demand Amongst other points these were some What should be the issue of the conuersion of Mounsieur de la Val and of the enterprises against Geneua and of the continuance of Heresie and of the estate of Madamoyselle Acarie and about the life of the King There were many like vnto these but so it fell out that Father Cotton deliuering vnto Mounsieur Gill●t Counsailour in in the great Chamber a booke which he had promised him there through some ouersight left behinde him his memoriall which falling by this meanes into the handes of the said M r. Gillot he communicated it vnto certaine others and amongst others to my Lord the Duke of Sully and so the matter came abroad Had this fallen out at some other time while some vigour of spirit yet remained in men this had beene sufficient to haue entred an inditement against the Iesuite it being a matter capitall for a man to enquire about the tearme of his Princes life and

the Church neither ought wee to obey him nor hold him for our King vntill hee had receiued approbation from the Pope During the foresaid proceedings certaine of the Lords of the Court came to the Colledge of Cleremont where the Iesuites were and there seazed on the papers of Iohn Guignard amongst which there was found a Booke composed in the praise of Iames Clement who murthered Henry the third with exhortation to doe the like vnto hi● Successour out of which Booke diuers clauses haue beene produced in the first Chapter The Court vpon the sight of these Writings sent for Guignard the Author who when his Writings were shewed him and himselfe examined thereupon confessed that himselfe had composed them and written them with his owne hand And hereupon Guignard by sentence of the Court was condemned and executed the 7. of the Ianuary 1595. By another sentence was Peter Gueret Iesuite the Maister of Iohn Chastell condemned to perpetuall banishment and all his goods seazed on and confiscated vnto the King with commandement for the erection of a Pyramis before the great gate of the palace with an inscription containing the causes why the Iesuites were banished In which inscription they are tearmed Heretiques troublers of the State and corrupters of Youth Which Pyramis while it stood if any did aske why it was set vp many more now a dayes are ready to aske why it was puld down A case like vnto this fell out at Melun the last of Aprill 1593. what time the processe criminall was made against Peter Barriere who being apprehended vpon the intelligence of a Fryer an honest man and faithfull vnto the King confessed that he came purposely vnto the Court to make away the King and that he had been incited hereunto by one Varad● by name a Iesuite whose daily practise was to defame the King with vile speeches By the perswasion of this Iesuite the fore-said Barriere had prepared a knife to doe the fear About this he first of all asked the aduise of A●bry Curate of S. Andrew des arts to whom he made his purpose knowne and afterwards betooke himselfe vnto Varade Rectour of the Colledge of Iesuites vpon the fore-said Aubry his aduise That the said Varade confirmed him in his resolution to kill the King and that by assuring him that in case hee were apprehended and put to death hee should obtaine in heauen a Crowne of Martyrdome That the said Varade adiured him vnto this action vpon the Sacrament of Confession and of Communion of the body of our Lord. It was also obserued that when the late King was striken their Colledges being enuironed with a Guard certaine Iesuits cried out at the doores of their Chambers Surge frater agitur de Religione Vp brother vp our Religion is in danger Besides this in the Colledge of the said Iesuites there were found diuers theames giuen by the Maisters of formes the argument of all which was an exhortation to set vpon Tyrants and to suffer death constantly It was also certified to betrue that after Paris was reduced vnder the Kings obedience the Maisters of the Colledge of Iesuites forbad their Schollers to pray for the King Else-where informations haue beene made against Alexander Hayes Iesuite borne in Scotland who taught openly that it was good to dissemble and for a while to performe obedience vnto the King in shew He was wont to say Iesuita est omnis homo This Iesuite was further charged to haue said and that often that he wished if the King came along by their Colledge he might fall out of the window vpon him and breake his neck For which cause by the sentence of the Court giuen the 10. of Ianuarie 1595. the saide Hayes was condemned to perpetuall banishment and withall hee was wished to keepe himselfe out of the Country vpon paine of being hanged without any other forme of arraignement Moreouer the said Fathers haue beene often conuicted for corrupting children that so they might sende them into strange Countries against the will of their Fathers As for instance in the yeare 1595. the 10. of Aprill a Iesuite by name Iohn the Fayre of the Colledge of Cleremont did honourable pennance in the great Chamber during the Audience bare-head and bare-foote in a white sheete holding in his hand a burning Torch of two pound weight of waxe and sentenced to professe and declare vpon his knees that rashly and vnaduisedly hee practised to seduce Francis Veron Clarke Student in the Vniuersitie of Poictiers to send him fo●th of the kingdome And further that he had indiscreetly reserued and kept with him Lectures and Treatises made by some of the said Societie which hee receiued and wrote out with his owne hand in the said Colledge of Cleremont containing many damnable instructions to attempt against Princes and withall approbation and commendation of that detestable parricide committed vpon the person of our King of most blessed memorie Henry the third These are things so common and so well knowne that who so should faine ought or adde vnto it cannot haue any hope to belieued and he must needes be accounted impudent that should denie them the whole bodie of the Court being witnesses of the truth of them Besides all this there is no man that hath not by experience found that the Iesuites were neuer other then sworne enemies vnto our Kings For during these last troubles which endeuoured to transport France into Spaine there were many of the Religious persons found and that of all Orders to ha●e taken the Kings part but there was no one Iesuite found to be for him vntil such time as for their crimes they were driuen out of the kingdome In a word the late King our Prince who neuer was afraide in warre yet was afraide of these men in peace My Lord the Duke of Sully can testifie this who perswading the King not to recall the Iesuites was answered by him Giue mee then securitie for my life And if we step forth of the kingdome of France we shall finde many examples of the like In all the conspiracies against Elizabeth the late Queene of England it was alwayes found that some Iesuites or other had the tempering of them and yet for all this they cease not to martyr her with wrongfull speeches after her death prouoked hereunto by this that shee suffered them not to murther her Bonars●ius the Iesuite in the first Booke of his Amphitheater and fourth Chapter cals her Lupam Anglican●m The English Wolfe And the Iesuite Eudaemon-Iohannes in the 116. Page of his Apologie for Garnet cals her Sororis filiam Patris neptem Her Sisters daughter and her Fathers Niece Of late Henry Garnet Hall surnamed Oldcorne Hamond Iohn Gerard and G●inuelle were found to be complices in that powder-mine which was made vnder the house where the King with the States of the Country were to assemble together And for these the Iesuite Iohn the H●ppy hath writ an Apologie wherein hee confesseth that indeede they knew the

other honest religious persons who were not touched in conscience they feared not lest any should accuse them But whence was it that at Bruxelles and at Prage where the Iesuites dominiere the Kings death was spoken of some twelue or fifteene dayes before it came to passe At Roan diuers receiued letters from their friends at Bruxelles desiring to be informed whether the report that went of the Kings death were true albeit at that time it was not so Mounsieur Argentier at Troyes receiued letters from the ●utor of his children at Prage wherein hee was aduertised that a Iesuite had giuen it forth that the King was dead before it fell out to be so and withall had tolde them that after his decease Monsieur the Dolphin should not be King but the King of Spaine and that for the same reasons which Father Gontier gaue in his sermons at Aduent and Lent last I may not omit the prediction of the prouost of Petiuiers who was found strangled in prison who being at Petiuiers two days iourney from Paris and playing at nine pinnes amongst sundry of his friends told them saying This day the King is either slaine or hath a blow This prouost was in faction a Iesuite and had committed a sonne of his vnto them who at this day is a Iesuite Diuers haue obserued with what disdaine and generall indignation it was taken of euery one to see the Iesuites at the Louure the very morning after this abhominable assassinacie looking with a smiling and pre●umptuous countenance as who should say all things went well for them and to be presented vnto the Queene by Mounsieur de la Varenne their Benefactor and restorer and to haue that boldnesse in this common heauinesse and sorrow so speedily to demand the ha●t of the poore deceased King which they carryed away in a kinde of conquest wherewithall they had done well to haue buryed also the tooth which Iohn Chastel a disciple of theirs strooke out some yeares since But who did not wonder to see all the Orders of religious persons assist the funerals of the King and pertake of the common sorrow sauing the Iesuites who alone hauing receiued more good turnes of this good King then all other Ecclesiasticall persons put together euen they alone vouchsafed not to accompany his body vnto the graue Which being obserued by diuers of the Spectators some said the reason of their absence was because they disdained all other Orders but the most iudicious their opinion was that it was no small part of their wisedome and that Tiberius and Iulia hauing procured the empoysoning of Germanicus in the publike mourning that was at Rome would not appeare openly for feare least the people should discouer their sorrow to be but false and counterfai●e After the Kings death they did what they could to keepe his purpose from taking effect and to thwart such courses as he iudged to be for the good of the State Hee had resolued to send companies vnto Cleues for aide to the princes of Germanie Since that Mounsieur the Marshall of Castres Generall of these forces prepared himselfe for the iourney when behold two Iesuites who came to seeke him out tolde him that he could not goe this voyage not bring succour vnto Heretiques with a good conscience and fought to affright his conscience with threats as that if he did this hee could not be saued But the said Marshall giuing no credit vnto their words within a while after they come vnto him to change their language and to appease him CHAP. IIII. An Examination of the declaratory Letter of Peter Cotton FIrst of all I say that this Letter being extorted as it is by necessitie comes out of season and doth not preuent the euill but comes after it for it should haue beene written against Mariana when hee first peeped forth and when the late King intreated Father Cotton to write against it I say further it is vtterly vnknowne to vs whether he speakes in earnest in his Letter or whether according to the doctrine of his Order he vseth Equiuocation and suppresseth the one halfe of his meaning or if he speakes in good earnest who seeth not that his companions are not of his opinion sith none of them hath subscribed his Booke nor approued it which yet had been most requisite in a matter so publike and of such importance Againe the authoritie of so many Iesuites condemning the murthering of Kings is alledged by him in vaine for all such passages of the Iesuites are vnderstood of Kings whom the Pope and Iesuites acknowledge for Kings But wee haue made it cleere in the former Chapters by the authoritie of a great many Iesuites and by their actions that when the Iesuites do attempt vpon the life of any King they make good their action by this that such a one they doe not reckon to be a King albeit he beares the name in as much as he is excommunicated or because hee is an enemie vnto the Church and in very deed this wretched Rauillac alledged this for the cause of his attempt to wit because the King would make war against the Popr and that the Pope was God and by consequence that the King would make warre against God And therefore the reuerend Abbot of Boyse hath well obserued in his answere to Father Cotton that whereas Gregorie of Valence Iesuite saith It is no way permitted for a man to attempt vpon the life of his Prince albeit he abuse his authority yet he addes If it be not done by publique iudgement Now all the Iesuites maintaine that the iudgement of the Generall of their Order is a publique iudgement and whereon they must rest themselues as on the voyce of Christ as wee haue shewed before wee hold also the iudgement of the Pope to be a publike iudgement Againe we haue formerly obserued that the Apologie of Eudemon-Iohannes the Iesuite approued by their Generall Aquauiua and of three Doctors● of the Iesuites affirmes that Iesuites doe no way approue the murthering of Kings notwithstanding they loue the euent so that it serues to no purpose for Father Cotton to condemne him that murthered the King if neuerthelesse he be glad for the euent that is to say for the death of the King And in very deede it is a fraudulent protestation that hee makes of approuing the decree of the Councell of Constance where they condemne the proposition of Iohn Petit and declare that it is not lawfull for a subiect to kill a Tyrant for the Iesuites haue their euasion ready and which is a truth namely that the Councell of Constance speaketh of such Tyrants as are lawfull Kings and that they speake not of Tyrants deposed by publike iudgement and whose Subiects are discharged and absolued of their oath of allegiance by the Pope nor of Kings who are iudged enemies vnto the Church For if the Iesuites shall vndertake to make away a King they will easily finde out some reason or other